RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ole Gjerde
Subject RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.05.9906071223020.31034-100000@snowman.icebox.org
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In response to RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items  ("Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> I made a patch on trial.
> 1)  Useless segments are never removed by my implementation 
>      because I call FileTruncate() instead of File(Name)Unlink().
> I'm not sure that this patch has no problem.
> Please check and comment on my patch.

I have tried it, and it seems to work.

> As Ole Gjerde mentioned,current implementation by his old 
> patch is not right.  His new patch seems right if vacuum is 
> executed alone.

Yes, my first patch was horribly wrong :)
The second one, as you mention, only works right if no reading or writing
is going on.

I'll talk more about the new patch in later emails.

Ole Gjerde




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